September, 1918 
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Bookrack, 26" long, 36" high; natural 
willow $10.75 ; stained $12. Arm chair, 
natural willow, $10.75 ; stained $12.25 
Koeb Photograph Co. 
Arched windows afford a good ground for the linen in yellow, blue, green and mulberry. Black and white 
tile floor. Walls and cornice, Caen stone. Furniture green with yellow lines. C. Victor Twiss, decorator 
hues or cool restful green; Venetian blinds; 
wrought iron brackets for plants; gold fish 
bowls; bird cages—an endless list. 
It’s simple enough in summer—with all 
the joy of out of doors looking in. But one is 
even more fully rewarded by planning a 
restful cheery spot of this sort for the gray 
autumn and wintry days. A place full of 
growing things in gay color jars, window 
boxes, parrots or birds, and a group of in¬ 
viting arm chairs in which one may lux¬ 
uriously ensconce oneself. 
In some houses the sun room is used for a 
breakfast room, and I remember seeing a 
particularly happy example of this. The 
house was of stucco and at one end of the 
dining room there were long windows open¬ 
ing into a good sized porch, with a green 
tiled floor. The stucco walls were nearly all 
windows and the space between had been 
carefully latticed—with a view to the archi¬ 
tectural beauties of the arched windows. 
The lattice, painted a vivid orange, made a 
pleasant background for the growing vines 
planted in tubs at regular intervals. At one 
end of the room there was a wall fountain 
splashing merrily, made of gray green and 
orange color tiles. A long breakfast table 
painted gray green with orange lines of 
decoration, a pair of serving tables and suit¬ 
able simple rush-seated chairs of ladder- 
back design were the only furnishings. 
Another delightful room used as a sun 
room has bricked walls painted a green blue. 
The floor is paved with wide dull red tiles 
and there are great low comfortable chairs 
and settees which are grouped about the 
hospitable hearth on cool days and drawn 
up at the French windows when the sun is 
high. The furniture is willow, painted 
black, and all the brilliancy of the chintz 
in vivid mauve, rose and blue is 
shown up by contrast. The chintz 
—which is glazed—is used on the 
cushions and for window shades. 
A brilliant macaw perched on a tall | 
stand adds his gayety of plumage to | 
the cheeriness of the scene. There | 
are masses of growing plants in | 
tubs painted a blue green, and in | 
stone jars. A well stocked writing 1 
table, plenty of books, magazines, 
cigarettes and so on, complete a 
milieu which is a center of attrac¬ 
tion to which all instinctively ^ 
gravitate. | 
The opposite end of 
the Lyman sun 
room is curtained 
with a gay green 
and orange chintz 
unlined. The cur¬ 
tains are bound with 
orange taffeta. 
Furniture is painted 
cool green with 
orange stripe. Table 
is wrought iron 
International Film Service, Ine. 
A fiber rug in alter¬ 
nate squares of 
black and ecru cov¬ 
ers the floor. The 
desk is painted 
green with an orange 
band. Behind it is 
trained ivy. Resi¬ 
dence of Thomas 
Lyman, Esq., Evans¬ 
ton, III. Margaret 
Field, decorator 
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